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Dear Colleague Letter

Supplemental Funding Requests for National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) US-Ireland Student Mobility Program | NSF 24-057

Encourages supplemental funding requests for graduate students to pursue additional training at one of the Science Foundation Ireland’s Centres for Research Training.

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Dear Colleague Letter

Understanding the Overturning Circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean | NSF 19-076

Encourages U.S.–U.K. collaborative research proposals on the overturning circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean and its interaction with other components of the Earth system over seasonal to decadal scales.

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Dear Colleague Letter

Repurposing the Alaska Transportable Array to Support Observations of Arctic Environmental Change | NSF 19-048

Invites proposals to repurpose a subset of stations in the Alaska Transportable Array to support observations of long-term environmental change of the Arctic.

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Dear Colleague Letter

Leadership-Class Computing Facility Application Team Partners | NSF 21-040

Dear Colleagues: For almost four decades, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a leading role in provisioning advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities for our nation's researchers to advance science and engineering (S&E) discovery and innovation. Today, as part of a...
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Opportunities for Research and Education in the Critical-Zone (ORE-CZ) | NSF 22-025

Invites proposals that expand the breadth of researchers investigating the dynamics and processes within Earth’s critical zone — the region that ranges from the weathered bedrock beneath the soil to the top of the vegetation canopy.

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Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science Research Coordination Networks (FAIROS RCN) | NSF 22-553

Supports research coordination networks to advance science and education using strategies informed by the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, reuse and open science.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | NSF 23-605

The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing...
Posted March 30, 2005
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Cooperative Agreement
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Ship-based Technical Support in the Arctic | NSF 22-528

Supports the coordination and delivery of scientific technical support and implements improvements to the technical systems onboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy.

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Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) | NSF 24-519

Supports research that incorporates scientific insights about human behavior and social dynamics to better design, develop, rehabilitate and maintain strong and effective American infrastructure.

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Cooperative Agreement
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BioFoundries to Enable Access to Infrastructure and Resources for Advancing Modern Biology and Biotechnology (BioFoundries) | NSF 23-585

Supports establishment of biofoundries to catalyze understanding of biological or bio-engineered systems, while ensuring broad access to technologies, training and education, and enabling rapid translation of basic discoveries.

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Ship Operations of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet Vessels | NSF 23-599

Supports the operations of research vessels for oceanographic research funded by NSF.

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Continuing Grant
Dear Colleague Letter

Extreme, Compound, and Cascading Hazards (EC2H) | NSF 23-125

Invites fundamental research into adaptive and/or resilient responses to natural disasters, extreme events, and other natural hazards.

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Supplemental Funding
Dear Colleague Letter

Veterans Research Supplement (VRS) Program | NSF 23-161

Invites supplemental funding requests from awardees of specific NSF programs to provide research opportunities to veterans who are undergraduate and graduate students, K-12 teachers or community college faculty.

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Dear Colleague Letter

Seafloor Geodesy | NSF 24-016

Invites proposals for field campaigns to deploy seafloor transponders from the existing instrument pool for four sites at tectonic settings in the Cascadia and Alaskan subduction zones.

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Supplemental Funding
Dear Colleague Letter

Geoscience Research Experiences for Post-Baccalaureate Students (GEO-REPS) Supplemental Funding Opportunity | NSF 22-072

Invites supplemental funding requests from active awardees of the Directorate for Geosciences to support research training for post-baccalaureate students who did not have access to these opportunities as undergraduates due to pandemic-related interruptions.

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Continuing Grant
Dear Colleague Letter

Seafloor Geodesy 2022 | NSF 22-124

Invites proposals to deploy seafloor transponders from NSF’s instrument pool for research in the Cascadia and Alaskan subduction zones. Proposals that target volcanic processes, transform processes, plate motions or polar regions are especially encouraged.

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Dear Colleague Letter

Nurturing Diverse, Skilled, Capable, and Productive Communities of CyberInfrastructure Professionals (CIP) | NSF 22-052

Mentoring requirements for Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation and Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure programs; encourages proposals to Research Coordination Networks which build CI professional networks.

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Cooperative Agreement
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Coastlines and People Hubs for Research and Broadening Participation (CoPe) | NSF 21-613

Supports multi-institutional coastal research hubs that study the interactions between natural, human-built and social systems in coastal populated environments.

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Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) | NSF 24-524

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

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Tectonics | NSF 22-515

Supports integrative field, laboratory, computational and theoretical research to understand the deformation of the terrestrial continental lithosphere.

Posted January 25, 2017
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
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Geospace Facilities (GF) | PD 04-4202

Supports research on the structure and dynamics of the Earth's upper atmosphere conducted at NSF-supported large incoherent-scatter radar facilities or with the SuperDARN coherent scatter radar system.

Posted January 24, 2005
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
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Innovation Corps Teams Program | NSF 21-552

An immersive, seven-week experiential training program that prepares NSF-funded researchers to bring technologies from the lab to the marketplace.

Posted January 28, 2005
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
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Marine Geology and Geophysics (MG&G) | PD 17-1620

Supports research on the geology and geophysics of the present ocean basins and margins, as well as of the Great Lakes.

Posted January 6, 2006
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
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Continuing Grant
Cooperative Agreement
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Hydrologic Sciences | NSF 22-540

Supports research on water beneath and on the Earth’s surface and relationships of water with material and living components of the environment, with a focus on hydrologic processes and fluxes of water.

Posted January 25, 2017
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime
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Aeronomy | PD 98-1521

Supports research on the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere of the Earth, with a focus on momentum within and between these regions, ionization, recombination, chemical reaction, photoemission, and the transport of energy.

Posted January 24, 2005
Full Proposal Accepted Anytime